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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2016197920142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.0.5, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID infoMVCCDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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